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Vernacular Photograph Album depicting the Domestic Life of an Unidentified American Family circa 1890

oblong quarto, album contains 36 mounted silver prints on 17 cardstock leaves, along with 16 unmounted silver prints of the family, laid in, bound in original cloth, in very good condition. The images measure 4 x 7 ¾ inches, the images are in generally very good condition, some are over exposed, but most are sharp and clear.

The album is of probable New York or New England origin. The photographs
show members of an extended family charmingly posed either in groups or singly,
in and around their suburban home and garden, or on outings to nearby streams,
the presence of American flags in some of the images suggest they were taken on
the Fourth of July. Family members are depicted with their various wheeled
vehicles, wagons, buggies, bicycles, and one young boy in a wagon pulled by a
goat.